Quotes About Impermanence

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Estoy seguro de que la cumbre es un breve segundo, un destello instantáneo, y no hay derecho a prórrogas".

Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

It's what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It's the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define ourselves by our moods and by our thoughts. We do not just let ourselves be happy or sad, for instance; we must become a happy person or a sad one. This is the chronic tendency of the ignorant or deluded mind, to make "things" out of that which is no thing.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

You learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Do not ask the sun to always shine. It cant, the clouds exist. Dont ask the leaves not to fall. It cant, the wind exists. Dont ask me not to fall in love. I cant, you exist.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

What would happen to the dream if its dreamer was no more?

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Everything that exists perishes, everything that has been created by those who perish will be destroyed. One inevitably leads to the other, one can never return to the primordial.

In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.

Not a word of what he said remains in my mind, but I remember going away with the impression that it was possible to live without knowing everything, after all, and that I might even try to be happy in a world full of riddles.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too.